International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2014

  • Harmony and Balance between the Orient and the Occident in the Woman Warrior

    Zhang Qiang

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2014
    Pages: 60-64
    Received: 28 March 2014
    Accepted: 16 April 2014
    Published: 30 April 2014
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    Abstract: Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the most famous female Chinese American writers in 20th century. Her famous novel The Woman Warrior confirmed her status in American literature. The novel describes the heroine’s life as a Chinese American and depicts the psychological course and conflict when confronting the pressure from both gender and culture. Thi... Show More
  • Daniel Defoe and Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe: Individuality in Film and Fiction

    Bassmah Bassam Khaled AlTaher

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2014
    Pages: 65-68
    Received: 29 March 2014
    Accepted: 30 April 2014
    Published: 10 May 2014
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    Abstract: Individuality is an important aspect in human nature. Therefore, finding a path that could be called his own is the soul-searching journey Robinson Crusoe undertakes in his various voyages. In this paper, the theme of individuality is explored in the eighteenth century novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and compared to its film adaptation by Lu... Show More
  • A Lengthened Epitaph Reverberating the Elegiac Tone in Tony Harrison’s Poems about His Parents

    Sulekha Sundaresan, K. Sumathi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2014
    Pages: 69-75
    Received: 03 March 2014
    Accepted: 08 May 2014
    Published: 20 May 2014
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    Abstract: Tony Harrison is Britain's principal film and theatre poet and has famously said "Poetry is all I write, whether for books, or readings, or for the National Theatre, or for the opera house and concert hall, or even for TV."2 He was born in Leeds in 1937, won a scholarship to Leeds grammar and read Classics at Leeds University. Harrison's majority o... Show More
  • The Matriarch of Bath – Chaucer’s Feminist Insights

    Tiffany J. Smith

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 3, May 2014
    Pages: 76-83
    Received: 05 April 2014
    Accepted: 04 May 2014
    Published: 20 May 2014
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    Abstract: This paper critically analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer’s character Allison of his tale “The Wife of Bath” within the Canterbury Tales. The argument is made that Chaucer intentionally used this character to present his personal feminist ideals to his audience, thereby acting as an advocate for women under the guise of literary author. Evidence will be pres... Show More